Boatswain's

For history and how-to of the Boatswain's call, try this, this, and this.

Archive 2008-06-01 Heather McDougal 2008

For history and how-to of the Boatswain's call, try this, this, and this.

The Languages of Tone and Rhythm Heather McDougal 2008

Hey SpreadEagle, are you a current or former Boatswain's Mate?

Jeralyn Merritt is comparing Sarah Palin to McGovern's disastrous selection, Thomas Eagleton. Ann Althouse 2008

Hey SpreadEagle, are you a current or former Boatswain's Mate?

Jeralyn Merritt is comparing Sarah Palin to McGovern's disastrous selection, Thomas Eagleton. Ann Althouse 2008

Yah, "Doughboy" was a favorite epithet in my US Navy boot camp company, sneeringly proferred to the beefy guys by Boatswain's Mate Second Class Tallent.

"I will discover to my shock and chagrin ... Glenn Greenwald has already written about it, and I’m totally hosed." Ann Althouse 2007

As far as I could tell, Boatswain's Mate Johnson administered the endless Flogging with the same force and Severity as he had for Aylmore — no more, no less.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

He was still moaning piteously and seemed unable to walk by himself when some of the other warrant officers — the elderly John Bridgens, the Subordinate Officer's Steward, Mr. Hoar, the Captain's Steward, Mr. Bell the Quartermaster, and Samuel Brown, the Boatswain's Mate — arrived to help him back to his quarters.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

For example, fouled anchors two anchors that are crossed over each other indicates a Boatswain's Mate, or the backbone of work force.

Rank and Specialty 2005

He was a big, burly, Baptist Boatswain's Mate of a friend, the most generous, the kindest, truest and most precious I have ever had.

Two Into One: The Lives of Russ and Winnie Kingman 2003

All the cleared ground visible to the Confederates led down to a boggy little stream which natives styled Boatswain's Swamp.

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001